Education Minister Dr. Majid Al Nuaimi received today German Ambassador to Bahrain Sabine Taufmann. He briefed her on the ministry's schemes to develop education and discussed with her ways of boosting bilateral cooperation in technical training.  Read more

The education secretary is being urged to ditch regulations limiting infant class sizes to 30 pupils, in order to save money. Sutton council chief executive Niall Bolger said his council had spent £7m on accommodating the extra pupils its schools would admit in September. He said the limit could be raised to 32 without harming education. But the government saidRead more

Dozens of teachers facing misconduct and incompetence claims will escape hearings due to changes to the way cases are dealt with, it is claimed. The TES reports that none of the 323 cases referred to England's General Teaching Council since August will be heard before it is axed in March. It is being replaced by the new Teaching Agency whichRead more

More than 1.65 million Chinese will take the entrance exam for postgraduate studies from Jan. 7 to 9, up 9.6 percent year-on-year, sources with the Ministry of Education (MOE) said Thursday. The ministry has emphasized discipline at the entrance exams, vowing to crack down on group cheating using telecommunication tools and discourage the illegal operation of social training institutions. TheRead more

Bahrain's parliament and education ministry are on a collision course over a decision to extend the school day in government schools. The ministry has been pushing for adding around one hour to the daily courses in a move to make students spend more time on formal learning. According to the ministry, a pilot experience in some girls' high schools hasRead more

Education Minister Dr. Majid Al Nuaimi attended today at Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Institute of Technology hall the graduation of the first batch of a specialized session on teaching human rights at schools. He praised the efforts made to organize the session as part of a line-up of programmes held by the Education Ministry in cooperation with experts and specialistsRead more

A recent report card from the OCED has found that American 15-year-olds were 25th out of 34 countries in math, and mid-tabled in science and reading, despite spending more dollars per student than all developed countries other than Switzerland. But now a crowd of new teaching initiatives are looking to push American students back up the rankings in innovative ways.Read more

Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Dr. Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri has lauded HH the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's support for the organization efforts in spreading the Islamic culture and Arabic language. Speaking to Qatari daily (al-Sharq), Dr. Altwaijri underlined that the State of Qatar is a founding member of theRead more

Minister of Education Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-No'aimi instructed the taking of appropriate administrative disciplinary actions and accountability of employees who fail to comply with the Civil Service regulations. The Minister made a surprise inspection visit to the Ministry's service facilities in Manama at the start of the official workday and was surprised to find out that almost all employeesRead more

Bahrain's Ministry of Education announced Thursday that a primary girl school was attacked last evening by terrorists and outlaws who threw Molotov cocktails on its buildings. The ministry said in a statement reported by the official (BNA) news agency that the guards at Balqis school had managed to extinguish the fire before it spread to other places. The Ministry ofRead more